Sue Fairbanks Lecture in Psychoanalytic Knowledge
The Sue Fairbanks Lecture Series is made possible by the Sue Fairbanks Endowment for Excellence in the Application of Psychoanalytic Knowledge in Social Work. Established in 2009, this permanent endowment is dedicated to educational programs in psychoanalytic knowledge and to promoting excellence in clinical practice.
The 2026 Sue Fairbanks Lecture is being held on Friday, October 2nd from 1-4pm CST.
Holding, Containing and Dissolving: A Psychoanalytic View of Psychedelic Therapies
Kevin Barrett, LCSW
Details and registration can be found here.
Past Lectures
2024 Who is Free to Free Associate: Psychoanalysis and Social Ethics
Elise Geltman, LCSW
2023 This Couch Has Bedbugs: On the Psychoanalysis of Homelessness and the Homelessness of Psychoanalysis
Brian Ngo Smith, LCSW, BCD-P,FABP
2022 Reclaiming What’s Mine: A Psychoanalytic Look at Antisocial Behavior in Youth and the Role of Deprivation
Dr. Huey Hawkins, Jr., Ph.D., LCSW
2021 Politics, Pandemics, and Personhood: Psychoanalytically Informed Approaches to the Traumas of 2020
Dr. Boris Thomas, JD, PhD, LCSW-R
2020 How a Psychoanalytic Lens Can Help Us Understand Incarcerated Youth
Victoria Mills, LCSW
2019 No “Evidence” For Psychoanalytic Therapy? Let Me Tell You Some Stories…
William S. Meyer, LCSW, BCD
2018 Difficult To Hold: Psychoanalysis And Anti-Oppressive Clinical Practice In Social Work
Marco Posadas, MSW
2017 Everyone Hates Me Now, But Where Were They When I Needed Them?”: A Psychoanalytic Look At Trauma, Violence, And Mass Incarceration
Elizabeth Kita, PhD
2016 Fear of Breakdown: Internal Agonies and Urban Life
Elizabeth Simpson, LCSW
2015 When A Parent Dies: A Psychoanalytic Perspective of The Process Of Bereavement
Colin Pereira-Webber, LCSW
2014 Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV-Positive Analyst
Gilbert Cole, PhD
2013 Psychoanalytic Social Work Renewed: Treating Community Violence One Life at a Time
Mark D. Smaller, PhD
2012 Across the Social Synapse: A Neurobiological and Psychoanalytic Approach to Enactments
Arlene Montgomery, PhD, LCSW
2011 The Sibling Relationship: A Force for Growth and Conflict
Joyce Edwards LCSW, BCD
2010 Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice with Vulnerable, Oppressed and Marginalized Populations
Joan Berzoff, MSW, EdD
2009 Psychoanalytic Treatment in Contemporary Social Work Practice
Carole Tosone, PhD, LCSW